Dumping threat to green plan

Saturday 12th July 2008, 10:00AM BST.

ILLEGAL dumping at some of the Island’s busiest recycling depots is causing major problems and could lead to their closure, says the recycling officer.

John Rive believes that it is mainly traders who are dumping large quantities of rubbish and glass at a number of areas – the worst being at Les Quennevais shopping precinct. ‘There is a severe fly-tipping
problem,’ he said.

‘It is absolutely horrendous at the moment. We have put a sign up in three different languages to warn people that it is an offence but it is still causing real problems.

‘I find it strange that people feel that it’s appropriate to drop rubbish on the floor at these sites.’ The problem is occurring despite having 13 recycling ‘bring’ banks around the Island and a £150,000 drive-through recycling centre at Bellozanne.

• Picture: Les Quennevais precinct has been particularly badly hit by fly-tipping

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Mike hunt

July 12, 2008 at 11:25 am

Why don’t you put Glass bins there aswell then as I’m sure most of the rubbish being tipped is actually glass!

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simon

July 12, 2008 at 3:24 pm

why not simply provide bins for non-recyclable materials and glass so that all rubbish can be disposed of in the same place? surely that’s a better course of action than simply closing these recycling centres?

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Anita

July 14, 2008 at 9:18 am

Funny how this fly tipping has only come to light now!!! just as Guy du Faye was saying that recycling will not work. I go around to quite a few of the recycling sites and I have seen none of this.

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Ros Saunders

July 14, 2008 at 12:46 pm

Maybe it is because people load their cars up with all their recycling, drive to the recycling points only to find that there isn’t bins for all kinds of recycling, eg. some places take newpapers and cans, while another only have bins for glass and have no facility for cardboard… why is it that apart from at Bellozane you can,t recycle everything in one place.. the carbon emissions produced driving from one site to the next probably out weigh any benefit!

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Bruce Labey

July 17, 2008 at 4:59 pm

The recycling centre is being overrun because of the popularity of recycling and proves that recycling does work. I really don’t understand how this story can be taken any other way. As the other people have said, if there were more bins at Quennevais – in other words if it was done properly – then there would be a huge popular response and it woudl be a great success. At the moment it’s stupid; eight or so bins for paper, one for plastic bottles and none for glass. Get your act together de Faye and wake up to what’s happening in the real world. Jersey people are desperately keen to recycle but the facilities not well organised. Sort it out.

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